Ieuan Savage

I'm back and this time it's (a) personal (account). Want to become second most popular Savage on Twitter. Me = football & booze. Opinions here are mine alone.

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Athletico Madrid twice in a week. A pilgrimage to where number 6 happened today!!

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I mean, all the best not being defaced today.

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What a day!

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Ticket available for tonight - Wales vs Kazakhstan, back of the Canton. Get in touch if keen.

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Michael Oliver = absolute bottle job! Played to the crowd all night. Was only giving decisions one way all night.

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I like Gary Neville on the TV, but have to get him off Liverpool games. Asking for a yellow for Salah for putting his leg in an unnatural position. To shoot left footed, it’s probably best to plant your right foot ya divvy!

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Ha ha, Howard Webb’s waffle half hour an absolute nonsense again. ‘The balls is too low to head . . .’ just after showing the ball at head height dropping between two players at waist height. He’s had a week to watch replays and that’s the best he’s got?

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Coote is still clearly the worst ref in the prem, this Jones guy has been weak as piss. No bookings for diving or kicking the ball away. Bizarrely inconsistent.

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Just watched the Hodgson post-match interview. Never understood the love-in with him - one of the least likeable and most disingenuous people in the game. Digging out van Dijk - Ayew wasn’t in the way, he intentionally puts himself in the way, that’s a yellow and his own fault.

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Watch that yellow in isolation, then I see the argument. But when it’s cynically breaking down a counter attack, then it makes sense. Why on earth Rio is a pundit for this, I have no idea.

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I’m not one to harbour a grudge (👀), but incredible to think that they didn’t have enough time to check the Diaz goal a few weeks ago. Sorry to bring it up again, it this should be 15+ of injury time.

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Well the audio from Saturday is exactly as expected. Loads of voices confusingly speaking over one another, desperate to slap each other on the back for a job well done. I’m sure I was taught at school not to talk over others. Not fit for purpose, the officials not the system.

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Appreciate that they want more respect for officials at grass roots level, but Premier League officials are paid a pretty penny to make a mess of things week in, week out. England always on VAR (rarely refs), but is consistently poor at that job.

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Yikes, awful first half. Szoboszlai only bright spot, Quansah generallly holding his own. Gomez is so passive and terrible performance, MacAllister looks knackered, rest all a bit anonymous!

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Blindly support their mate. If it’s a red for MacAllister, then we’re in for a long season of 8 vs 7. The fact that he’s missing 3 games when others have received a yellow for the same challenge is quite frankly embarrassing.

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Not watched any of the analysis (seen some highlights without sound), but really struggling to see why MacAllister was sent off and Guimares wasn’t. Neither a red imo, but where’s the consistency? Abusing officials not good I agree, but these are professionals getting . .

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. . paid handsomely for their work. Yet they continually demonstrate that they’re not fit for purpose. Bramall a ‘new’ referree, so can see how he might get overawed, so his experienced colleagues in VAR are there to help. Yet, they appear to feel that their job is to just

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Unconvincing again tonight, lucky to still have a chance to progress. Need to up it at Molyneaux. Loved Doak’s cameo. Think the offside rule that player Salah onside, very reminiscent of Kane’s goal in the 2-2 draw few years back. Daft!

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FFS, how does the new Twitter algorithm work? It can’t be based on engagement or dwell time. First three on my timeline just now were Andrew T Davies, Isabel Oakenshott and Nigel Farage. A cesspit of negativity and uselessness. And just because I like / follow Bob Mills . . .

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. . . it doesn’t mean that I want to hear incessantly from Sophie Corcoran. I don’t mind hearing about opinions that differ dde on my own, but it’s just constantly filled with poisonous bile that I have no interest in.